Google announced a strategic partnership with the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) to enhance access to quality education across India. This collaboration empowers students, parents, and teachers by providing engaging and accessible educational content.
“Learning has always been at the heart of YouTube. And, in India, where accessible education is crucial for unlocking the nation’s potential, YouTube can help make learning content more accessible through innovative partnerships, tools, and resources,” said Jonathan Katzman, Director of Product Management, YouTube Learning, in a Google blog post.
NCERT to launch YouTube channels
As part of this initiative, NCERT will launch multiple YouTube channels covering grades 1 to 12 over the coming months. These channels will offer educational content in 29 Indian languages, including Indian Sign Language, making learning accessible to diverse learners.
Google and NPTEL Collaboration
Google has also partnered with the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) to roll out credentialed courses on YouTube. This collaboration will enable learners to access and complete courses on various subjects, from pure sciences and literature to sports psychology and rocket propulsion.
“Through this initiative, a pathway has been created for anyone outside the IIT system to be able to do a course on NPTEL’s YouTube channels and then complete the online certification on the NPTEL-SWAYAM portal and get a certificate from the IITs,” Katzman said. He added more courses will be rolled out in the coming months.
“Using AI, we identify concepts covered in a video and may provide definitions from the web of those concepts across subjects like biology, physics, and chemistry. We surface definitions and images from Google’s Knowledge Graph based on the video’s transcript and other associated video metadata,” Katzman said.
